Genetics and Evolution

Blueprint

Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are by Robert Plomin. The MIT Press; Updated edition (2019)

Michael Connolly

Oct 12, 20251 min read

Tangled Tree

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen. Simon & Schuster, Reprint, Paperback, (2019)

Michael Connolly

Oct 12, 20251 min read

The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition (Oxford Landmark Science) 4th Edition by Richard Dawkins. Oxford University Press; 4th edition (2016)

Michael Connolly

Oct 12, 20251 min read

Life Ascending

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents The prime example is the Atlantis massif in the mid-Atlantic, also called the Lost City. The tectonic plates are spreading apart to expose fresh mantle. Seawater invades mantle, which then emits hydrogen, methane, and ammonia. Alkaline hydrothermal vents generate acetyl thioesters. Carbon dioxide plus acetyl thioester produces pyruvate. Phosphate plu

Michael Connolly

Oct 7, 20254 min read